Dean R. Bruce Donoff, DMD, MD

The Harvard School of Dental Medicine is a special place. It changed my own life and influences our students in so many ways. Flexibility and serendipity are possible within a rigorous curriculum that provides an environment of excellence that prepares students to pass all of the usual tests of competency and licensure.

This is done by bringing together clinicians and scientists to help put science into practice in new ways. We must foster interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary learning and discovery to bring us ever closer to creating an academic dental center where education, research and patient care occur simultaneously and inform and improve one another.

The Harvard School of Dental Medicine’s vision is to set the standard of excellence in dental education, practice and research. Therefore, I dedicate this message to all those who assist in our mission to develop and foster a community of global leaders advancing oral and systemic health.